The Dirty Picture (2011-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

The Dirty Picture Movie Details :

The Dirty Picture Movie is a 2011 Indian Bollywood biographical musical drama film inspired by the life of Silk Smitha, a South Indian actress noted for her erotic roles. The filmmakers have clarified that the story is not officially or literally based on Smitha alone, but on many of her southern contemporaries such as Disco Shanti. It also resembles the personal lives of other women in popular culture, including Hollywood actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. The film was directed by Milan Luthria and co-produced by Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor, after Ekta came up with the idea and asked screenwriter Rajat Aroraa to pen a story based on it.

Produced on a budget of 180 million, The Dirty Picture was released worldwide on 2 December 2011 (the anniversary of Smitha’s birth),in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil versions. Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Tusshar Kapoor played lead roles.[9] Upon release it was a critical and commercial success, with Balan receiving the highest accolades for her performance; she was called “the hero of the film”.In addition, the film has received widespread praise for portraying women as powerful, contributing something unique to a typically male-dominated society.The music was composer is Vishal Shekhar with lyrics writter is Rajat Aroraa.

The Dirty Picture grossed 1.17 billion worldwide and received several awards, most of which were won by Balan for her portrayal of Silk. It won three National Film Awards including Best Actress, three Filmfare Awards and six Screen Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Box Office India declared the film Super Hit after its fourth week.

• Directer : Milan Lutharia
• Producer : Ekta Kapoor,Shobha Kapoor
• Writter : Rajat Aroraa
• Starring : Vidya Balan,Naseeruddin Shah,Tusshar Kapoor,Emraan Hashmi
• Narrater : Emraan Hashmi
• Music/Songs : Vishal-Shekhar
• Background Score : Sandeep Shirodkar
• Cinematography : Bobby Singh
• Editer : Akiv Ali
• Casting : Anmol Ahuja,Abhishek Banerjee
• Production Design : Priya Suhas
• Art Direction : Mohan Bingi,Sandeep Suvarna
• Costume Design : Niharika Bhasin,Moiz Kapadia,Dipti Mhatre
• Makeup Department : Ram Shinde
• Visual Effects : Neil Cunningham,Radhakrishnan Damodaran
• Action Directer : Javed Karim
• Production company : Balaji Motion Pictures
• Distributer : ALT Entertainment,Balaji Motion Pictures
• Genres : Biography,Drama,Musical
• Release date : 2 December 2011
• Running time : 144 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

The Dirty Picture Movie Wacth Online :

Star Cast of The Film :

• Vidya Balan as a Reshma / Silk
• Emraan Hashmi as a Abraham
• Tusshar Kapoor as a Ramakant (as Tusshar)
• Naseeruddin Shah as a Surya Kant
• Rajesh Sharma as a Silva Ganesh / Keedha Das
• Neha Bam as a Silk’s Biological Mother
• Devyani as a Girl in maroon dress
• Lavin Gothi as a Wiry Man
• Imran Hasnee as a Vijayan
• Mangala Kenkre as a Ratnamma
• Anju Mahendru as a Nyla
• A.R. Manikandan as a Photographer
• Dilip Merala as a Photographer at the race course
• Gulshan Pandey as a Director
• Vikas Shrivastav as a Casting Director Sudhir
• Shivani Tanksale as a Radhika
• Atul Singh Verma as a Usher
• Arya Banerjee as a Shakila

Story of The Film :

Rebellious and uninhibited Reshma lives an impoverished lifestyle with her mother, Ratnamma, in 1980s South India. She is an ardent fan of film actor, Suryakant, and her one ambition in life is to meet and act with him. She runs away to Madras, and like, hundreds of young women, lines up outside Jupiter Studios to try and get noticed. With her plain, next-door-girl looks, she gets ignored but as fate could have it she is given a chance to play a minor role after she manages to sneak into the studios. The role exploits her as a sex symbol, driving males to the cinema houses to absorb her movements and beauty. Virtually overnight she, now renamed Silk, becomes a sensation, and together with the aging superstar, Suryakant, the one she had always fantasized about, she sizzles the silver screen with her sex appeal. Suryakant’s brother, Ramakant, an author, is smitten by her – so much so that he would like her to opt out of movies altogether, so that he could marry her. But the rebellious …

Production :
Development :

Ekta Kapoor launched the film with director Milan Luthria soon after their collaboration Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai became a hit. She said that The Dirty Picture would be India’s answer to the Academy Award-nominated film Boogie Nights. Later in a press conference, Kapoor clarified that neither of Balaji’s forthcoming films, Ragini MMS nor The Dirty Picture, were “porn films” as they had been made out to be.

Kapoor has gone on record to add, “I would be surprised if I don’t get unbelievable critical acclaim for The Dirty Picture and a national award for my actress, Vidya Balan. The film has one of the most well-written scripts I have come across and a lot of youngsters in my office have looked at it with great admiration.” She pointed out that the purpose of the film was neither to justify nor criticise Smitha’s life but for the audience to live her life.Additionally, all actors, including Balan and Shah attended workshops for almost two months before film shooting, to familiarise themselves with the body language of their characters.

The story chose me! It was Ekta’s idea; she had asked the writer to write a story based on this, and once it was done, they casually asked me to go through it. She wanted a first-time director to do it as it wasn’t a big canvas and they did not have a big budget, but when I read the story I was bowled over. I told her I wanted to direct it; it was exclusive material – not those typical masala films, and I didn’t want anyone else directing it.

When screenwriter Rajat Aroraa initially started working, taking cues from producer Kapoor, the scope of the film was much smaller, primarily looking back to the soft-pornography scene of the 1980s. As work progressed, the scope gradually widened to include the controversial romances of Smitha through a fictionalised biopic. While researching for the film, director Luthria and screenwriter Aroraa found little material in magazines of that period, as “women like Silk Smitha were often ignored by film magazines, except for gossip column mentions”. Thus they derived many of the details of her life from anecdotes and party gossips, and then fictionalised them. Apart from depicting the pomp of the Telugu/Tamil film industry, the screenplay takes up issues such as money management by actors, “their string of broken relationships”, and the way they “led lonely lives and met with tragic ends”. For inspiration, instead of looking at South Indian films of the period, the team turned to the work of mainstream Bollywood directors like Manmohan Desai, Vijay Anand, Raj Kapoor, Feroz Khan and G.P. Sippy. To put the global soft-porn industry in context, the team looked into Boogie Nights (1997) and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996). The final script became a “fictionalised, women-oriented, generalised perspective on the 1980s film industry”.

Film Casting :

After initial talks with actresses Kangana Ranaut and Bipasha Basu fell through, Vidya Balan was offered the lead role. When Balan was narrated the script and shown sketches of what she needed to wear for the portrayal, she felt uncomfortable. Luthria added, “We couldn’t have found anyone better than Vidya for this role. It’s a casting that very few would think is viable because it is going to be nothing like Vidya has done before. But I am confident she will push the envelope as far as she can”.

Regarding the criticism that Balan’s character might evoke, Luthria clarified, “I wanted Vidya to know that what she’s doing is not crass or crude but can be shown aesthetically in a sensual manner with a touch of class. What her character does, is not cheap.” As a reference point, he also asked Balan to study ‘similar themed’ films such as Burlesque and Chicago. Balan also underwent salsa training to fine-tune herself with Smitha’s languid body language.

Next, Naseeruddin Shah was cast as an ageing South Indian superstar with “hideous wigs, dark glasses and painted-on mustaches”. He performed a “fast dance number” in the film, a full 22 years after he last did it in the song “Tirchi Topiwale” from Tridev (1989). Regarding his character, Ekta Kapoor stated, “This role requires him to play to the gallery, provoke claps, laughs, and whistles and I know he can pull it off because Naseer is the Shah of all actors.” Luthria added, “Expect a man who unabashedly enjoys the flesh of women”.

Tusshar Kapoor and Emraan Hashmi were next cast in lead roles. While it was known that Tusshar Kapoor would play the role of a script-writer and Smitha’s love interest, the nature of Hashmi’s role was unknown for a while. The casting received praise from trade pundits, with Taran Adarsh commenting, “Known for engaging in interesting and unconventional casting in all its previous releases, Balaji has again tackled the unheard of, by casting Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan – two of the most successful stars of today – opposite each other in The Dirty Picture. The perfect combination of mass and class promises to make this controversial film yet another winner from the Balaji stable.”

Film Shooting :

Film shooting was to Started on 21 May 2011: a week after the release of Kapoor’s Ragini MMS. But due to production delays, it starte a week later.Balan, a religious person, organised a puja on the sets before film shooting stated

The first leg of filming took place at Mumbai’s Film City where an elaborate set re-creating Chennai (then Madras) of the 80s was set up. The second schedule was shot in Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad. The song “Ishq Sufiyana” was shot at Bidar fort in Bidar, Karnataka. Film shooting was completed in September, before venturing into post-production, ahead of the December release.

Director Luthria wanted to depict a sense of discomfort between the two lead characters, Balan and Hashmi, a “meeting of two completely different worlds”. So he didn’t allow them to interact and get comfortable with each other during film workshops ahead of the shoot. Since he considered them “the unlikeliest pair to come together”, he brought them together right into the shoot filming an important scene, where they had to insult each other. Though he was initially anxious, it all turned out well and he was surprised by the resulting chemistry.

Marketing :

The first look of The Dirty Picture and a short teaser were launched online on 26 August 2011.The enthusiastic response even prompted its producers to consider a sequel.The film’s trailer on YouTube got over 500,000 hits in one day and one million hits in two days. Meanwhile, the theatrical trailer was launched on 30 August at a single screen cinema in Bandra. The space was especially decorated to recreate the retro era. Since the film is set in the 1980s, a time when multiplexes did not exist, the producers thought it would be fitting to show the première on a single screen.The lead stars created publicity by organising a promotional campaign in the festival of Mithibai College on 30 November.

As a part of the film promotion, actors Vidya Balan, Tusshar Kapoor and Emraan Hashmi made appearances on the popular TV show Bigg Boss aired on Colors on 26 November 2011. Balan also entered the house to spend some time with the housemates and present a red sari to Sunny Leone, as a present. On 27 November 2011, Balan and Hashmi made guest appearances on a special one-hour episode of Sony Entertainment Television India’s popular daily soap Bade Achhe Lagte Hain. Balan shook leg to the song, “Ooh La La” with Saakshi Tanwar, the female lead actress of the soap.

The Dirty Picture Movie Songs / Music :

T-Series acquired the music rights for The Dirty Picture. Vishal-Shekhar composed four tracks and Rajat Arora penned the lyrics for them. The first of the four tracks, “Ooh La La,” sung by Shreya Ghoshal and Bappi Lahiri was released on the internet on 19 October 2011. “Ooh La La” was featured in Fox American sitcom television series New Girl episode “Big Mama P”. and was used in some regional films, including Race Gurram in party scene in Lucky’s house.

Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama gave the music an overall rating of 4 out of five saying, “Music of The Dirty Picture takes the expected route and delivers what it promised” and chose Ooh La La and Ishq Sufiyana as picks from the album. Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com gave the album a rating of 2 and a half out of 5, and said the opening track of The Dirty Picture is the album’s only star.

• “Ooh La La” – Shreya Ghoshal, Bappi Lahiri
• “Ishq Sufiana” (Male) – Kamal Khan
• “Ishq Sufiana” (Female) – Sunidhi Chauhan
• “Honeymoon Ki Raat” – Sunidhi Chauhan
• “Twinkle Twinkle” – Shreya Ghoshal, Rana Mazumdar
• “Ooh La La” (Dhol Mix) – Bappi Lahiri, Shreya Ghoshal

 “Ooh La La” Full Video Song :

• Singer ~ Bappi Lehri, Shreya Ghoshal
• Music On ~ T-Series

 “Ishq Sufiana” Full Video Song :

• Singer: Kamal Khan
• Music Director: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani
• Lyricist: Rajat Arora
• Music Label: T-Series

Release and reception :

The film released worldwide on 2 December 2011, coinciding with the 51st birth anniversary of South Indian film siren Silk Smitha. Nationally, the film released on 1766 screens and on 120 screens abroad. The satellite rights were sold to Sony Entertainment Television for 80 million and another 20 millionfrom music rights deal with T-Series.Raveena Tandon’s husband, Anil Thadani acquired the distributor rights for 191 million

The Dirty Picture Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 6.6 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 8670.

It is very rare when a director justify vulgarity and in that particular movie. Director Milan Luthria crafted it very intelligently. I hope most of the people will go for sex oriented movie but I bet they will go again for a fine movie. The speech of Vidya at Award Ceremony Scene was the peak of the movie and real subject. A female actress dominate in a movie with 03 main heroes with a big name Naseeruddin Shah, popular one Emran Hashmi. Vidya handle all exposing material with a grace and style and i think from that movie she will have her new Identity O Lala. Perhaps this is not the first time which depict the behind the scene of film industry but this time it is really fascinating that there is no casting couch type material and struggle is very correct. Go and watch once on this review and you will go again on you own.

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 4 star out of 5 Star.

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